INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18366, 27 April 1925, Page 3

INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION.

EXECUTIVE MEETING. Thj» Executive Committee of the Induatrial Association of Canterbury met oh Friday night. Present: Messra E. H. Marriner (chairman), I, "Woolf, H. "Willia, H. B. Best, F. It. Hutchinson, H. Bradley, X. A- Fxoßtick, A. ~W. Beavon, S. EL Mjaddren, D. Cctlquhoun, H. Burson, and R. H. Wilsoa. Apologies for absence were received from Messrs W. W. Charters, W. J. Jenkin, A. M. 'West, R. H. "Webb, and E, W. Woodroffa.

There w»a a lengthy discussion (reported alsewhers in this issue) relative to the Association's attitude towards the Dunedin Exhibition.

The chairman, in his statement, said that he had hoped that Mr Woociroffe would have been present to bring before them matters relating to tha questionnaire to be submitted to Parliamentary candidates: the matter would have to stand over. As to the proposed Railway Touring Exhibition, with Mr J. W. Collins, he had interviewed the RaUv;ay Department which had agreed to reduce its original rates 30 par cent., bringing the cost of the train down to £llOO. The committee- to which the matter was referred recommended, in view of the Associar ton having decided to tako part in the Dunedin Exhibition, that this matter stand over for the present year. The committee's recommendation 'was •greed to.

The chairman said that within a \yeek or ten days he hoped to present the prizes to the school children who were successful in the Association's essay competition. Regarding the conference in Wellington on industrial research, which waa attended by Mr "Woodrofie, on behalf of the Association, it proved very successful, and there was overy likelihood of some definite stop being taken to bring the matfer to a head. The Hon. G. J. Anderson, Acting-Minister of Industries and Commerce, had accepted the association's invitation to visit Christchurch to make himself acquainted with the city's industries, and they might expect him to pay his visit in a few weeks. He expressed gratification, on behalf of the Association, yrith tho Railway Department's policy of speeding up its services. He reported on the visit of representatives of local bodies and others interested to Lyttolton Harbour, and said that it had showed that the Board was pushing ahead with tho work of equipping the Port with the latest machinery. A letter from the National Union of Manufactuicrs, London, suggesting a conference on the subject of consolidating the trade interests of the Empire, was referred to the New Zealand Industrial Corporation. . A letter was received from a firm of manufacturers complaining of tSe competition from Canada and tha United States in the matter of* orcgon door*, which were underselling tha Iv'ew Zealand article. It was decided to ask representatives of tho trade affected to place their case before the executive at its next meeting.